Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1887-08-20
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.

Firemen's reunion at Island Park
Monday, Aug. 22d. Train leaves at
1925 a. m. Round-trip fare, so cents.
Public cordially invited.
B. &. o. r. r. officer Sloan arrested
two colored men at the G. V. Depot
Thursday, on their way from Har-
per's Ferry to Harrisburg. They are
charged with the theft of watch
from Mrs. Gibson, of the Ferry.
r. r.. AcCIDENT.-The st. Louis,
Chicago and Cincinnati Ex., due here
at 400 a. M, Washington 6:20, when
nearing the "Yn at Washington
Wednesday, escaped control and ran
into the signal tower, some of the
cars having jumped the track. There
was q wreck. A number of passen-
gers were more or less injured. s.
FL. Brosius, of Balto., engineer, was
killed. He was on the road 80 years.
He had frequently complained of bad
brakes and expressed fear of rum
ming In. Only few days before he
told friend that he was well fixed,
and would leave the road Sept. L. He
died at his post. The Phila. Press
says:
1t is not often a railroad accident
occurs with such dramatic accessories
as those which accompanied the
smash-up this morning. The specta-
Gle of train rushing on down grade
to inevitable destruction in the early
morning sunlight under the shadow
of the capital of the nation with dis
tress signals screaming, brakemen
wrestling vainly with imperative
brakes and an engineer true to his
duty to the last climbing frantically
| to the top of the engine in final in.
effectual effort to reduce the speed by
opening the steam box, is more realis-
tic than any scene that has been at
tempted upon the stage. Add the
horror of train jumping the track
and rushing at rate of fifty miles an
hour or more straight for four-stOry
brick signal tower, the signal officer
throwing himself from three-story
window to escape instant death, a
crash, the SCATTERING of the brick
tower, a geyser of wind and steam
and then an indistinguishable mass of
rods and pistons and broken iron and
shattered glass, the silence that fol-
lowed the crash broken only by the
shrieks and groans of the wounded,
supply on background numbers of
terrified citizens rushing to their
doors and windows, and the Balti-
more and Ohio accident to-day in
dramatic picturesqueness stands al
most alone.
The engine was dragged from the
track, and, ploughing through the
dirt and mud a distance of $50 feet,
rolled completely over. There it lay,
giving forth its steam and hot water
in great jets. The steam plowed up
the dirt and covered the house in
| front of the engine with fine layer
of yellow mud that looked like fresh
coat of paint. The steam and water
were blown through the house, and
some of the inmates were badly scald-
ed. Near the engine lay Hamilton
Brosius, the engineer. crushed and
dying, and his fireman with several
bones broken. But behind the en-
CINE was scene of panic and con.
| fusion. One car was crushed and
nearly buried under tie tracks and
timbers of the demolished building
Two sleeping coaches and one passen-
ger coach remained on the track
The mail car, the express car and the
baggage car were rolled over and
their sides were crushed. The roof
| of one car protruded from the ruins
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